What did Mary Oliver mean by: Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude. - Mary Oliver Poet · USA Copy
+ Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Oliver, Imagination, Lonely, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel? Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Oliver, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Oliver, Heart, Hunger, Hungry, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Oliver, Accurate, Different, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Oliver, Loneliness, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier? Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Oliver, Love, Marriage, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ I’ve always wanted to write poems and nothing else. Feraz Zeid, August 18, 2023December 12, 2023, Mary Oliver, Writing, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world. Feraz Zeid, September 5, 2023December 26, 2023, Mary Oliver, Self-love, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. - William Empson Poet and literary critic · England
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
What raises great poetry above all else–it is the entire person and also the entire world. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria